Sandoval in New Mexico

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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National LambdaRail brings high-speed networking to communities


Are you wondering how counties such as Sandoval in New Mexico are going 
to run bandwidth-hungry applications (e.g. telemedicine and video 
e-learning) on their wireless broadband networks? One solution: National 
LambdaRail (NLR), a consortium of leading U.S. research universities and 
private sector technology companies that is deploying a nationwide 
optical, Ethernet and IP networking infrastructure. Read Appendix C in 
the Sandoval County feasibility study to understand how the county plans 
to use the NLR’s fiber connections to deliver more bandwidth than cable 
and DSL. Here’s an excerpt from Appendix C of the feasibility study:

2. There are a very limited number of access points into the National 
Lambda Rail (NLR)’s established 11,000 miles of Optical Fiber Pairs 
around the nation. See www.nlr.net for more information. In the New 
Mexico area there will be one, but only one, Gigapop access point, 
organized and run by the University of New Mexico (UNM) for the state of 
New Mexico, and located in Albuquerque. UNM is already a member of the 
NLR Inc. consortium.

3. Each access point is run by a member of the consortium, and can 
provide access for major research projects, defense organizations, 
governmental organizations, other organizations such as educational 
groups, medical institutions, emergency & security groups, think tanks, 
media & cultural centers, etc., as each such organization sees fit. Some 
members of the consortium, such as Pacific Wave, are establishing 
oversees links into the NLR (Seattle and up-&-down the West Coast.)

. . .

14. With today’s new generation of wireless link products, it is 
possible to provide such a direct link with up to 300Mbps in a direct 
Line-Of-Sight from the roof of the Gigapop building to the appropriate 
location in Sandoval for less than $20K. Naturally the technology 
scales, so multiple links can be established if needed. Or any number of 
links with less bandwidth can be provided at lower costs to a number of 
sites in Sandoval County.

15. This Broadband NLR connection would thus also provide much more 
cost-effective support for many other user groups, both new and existing 
Broadband providers / users within Sandoval County. Both Internet data 
connections and telephone provisioning can be established.

NLR promotes next generation networking technologies and services

This week NLR announced that it has gathered a team of researchers and 
technologists to guide and direct NLR’s support of networking research. 
The NLR Networking Research Council (NNRC) is chaired by David J. 
Farber, NLR’s Chief Scientist and a distinguished professor at Carnegie 
Mellon University. NLR provides researchers unprecedented control over a 
nationwide network infrastructure with up to 40 individual 
lightpaths—each of which can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second and 
be used to deploy dedicated side-by-side, but physically and 
operationally separate, production and experimental networks.

NLR has committed to devoting half of this capacity to support 
networking research, with the goal of bringing together networking 
research communities to solve complex challenges of architecture, 
end-to-end performance and scaling for future-generation networks.

David Farber, chair of the NLR Network Research Council, says:

National LambdaRail provides networking researchers a unique set of 
resources for exploring revolutionary new approaches to networking. It 
is increasingly clear that we need to look beyond incremental 
improvements to address challenges facing the Internet, and NLR allows 
us to do that in ways that wouldn’t otherwise be possible.
In addition to providing NLR with overall guidance relating to its 
support of networking research, the NNRC will provide principles, 
policies and procedures for the use of the NLR infrastructure for 
networking research purposes, and will promote the extensive and active 
use of the NLR infrastructure by networking researchers.

Craig Partridge, Chief Scientist at BBN Technologies and a member of the 
NNRC, says:

Two guiding principles in networking research are that good solutions 
are those that work over wide area networks and that, to make progress, 
one has to be willing to risk occasionally breaking the network. The 
expense of building a big network means that we rarely get to build big 
networks that can fail. NLR’s great gift is it gives researchers a wide 
area network where they can take risks.
In addition to David Farber, members of the NNRC include:

Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dan Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara
Javad Boroumand, Cisco Systems
Hank Dardy, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Constantinos Dovorlis, Georgia Tech
Gerald Faulhaber, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Francis, Cornell University
Dewayne Hendricks, Dandin Group (who is a regular contributor to 
Muniwireless)
Larry Landweber, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Internet2
Jason Leigh, University of Illinois-Chicago
Steven Low, Caltech
Mike O’Dell, New Enterprise Associates
Phil Papadopoulos, University of California, San Diego
Craig Partridge, BBN Technologies
Harry Perros, North Carolina State University
The NLR infrastructure is already supporting cutting-edge uses of 
optical networking capabilities in research and education such as those 
being demonstrated at this week’s SC|05 conference in Seattle, including 
the National Science Foundation-supported Extensible Terascale Facility 
and OptIPuter projects, the U.S. Department of Energy’s UltraScience 
project, CENIC and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop’s Pacific Wave project, 
and Internet2’s Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure (HOPI) project.


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